On a warm spring morning, an eastbound intermodal twists its way upgrade through the curves at Cliff high above Tehachapi Creek.

The DPUs on a Wasco-bound coal train sail past the cantilever signal at Sandcut. This train is loaded in Utah and runs via UP's LA&SL mainline to Daggett where it enters BNSF trackage for the firs... (more)

After negotiating nearly one hundred miles of continuous canyons, an eastbound Los Angeles to Denver Z train enters the Clover Valley east of Islen. After topping the 5,972 foot summit at Crestlin... (more)

As the late afternoon shadows encroach on Clover Creek Canyon, a westbound marine stacker rolls past the west switch of Richmond siding. After getting the photo and starting the trek back down to ... (more)

A patched SP AC44 and two other units hustle 87 empty hoppers eastbound in the waning daylight at Eccles. The train is returning from the port at Long Beach to the Savage loadout near Price, Utah.

Having just exited the narrow confines of Clover Creek Canyon, the eastbound KLAG1 throttles up as it rolls east through the remote Clover Valley between Islen and Acoma.

Entering the lower reaches of Rainbow Canyon, an eastbound KLAG1 negotiates the curves above Leith, just east of daylighted tunnel 3.

With the low evening sun dropping into the San Joaquin Valley haze, the Rio Grande heritage SD70ACe rolls downhill through Cliff with a westbound manifest. Following this train over the pass on th... (more)

An eastbound stack train crawls through the north siding at Niland as Amtrak's westbound Sunset Limited races past underneath some classic US&S hardware.

A heavy storm rolls in off the Santa Rosa mountains as an eastbound manifest races along the choppy waters of the Salton Sea at Betram.

The last rays of sunlight illuminate the peaks of the Wasatch Mountains as two GEs lead a westbound KMNOA across the Bagley Fill west of Ogden.

A grimy GE leads the westbound Roper to Roseville manifest up Silver Zone Pass out of Wendover. Pilot Peak presides over Arnold Loop and the Pilot Creek Valley.

A yard job shoves back on a cut of cars in the yard as a westbound stack train awaits a fresh crew in front of the Green River depot.

A westbound KMNOA sits in the hole at Promontory Point as an eastbound Z train speeds by. Once the priority train clears, the westbound will enter track warrant control for the journey across the ... (more)

The temperature on this clear, sunny morning is somewhere in the single digits as a westbound grain train marches uphill out of Montello, toward the summit at Valley Pass. The grade doesn't exceed... (more)